state skipping

We read books, we watch movies, we narrate tales to one another in an effort to connect, to refocus, and to channel our emotions. Some stori...

 When I graduated high school, I was named co-Salutatorian. I had been working toward being Valedictorian since 9th grade, but with people l...

Another year has come and is now gone. And now there are 12 months before I leave my 20s.  I feel like I just graduated college, and yet, I ...

 It's the deadliest year since 1918, and the toll continues to rise. It's difficult, surrounded by death, not to think about the dea...

 Since 2014, I have been "on."  What felt like every second of every day, I was checking my email, my texts, my work app texts. Wh...

Before she left our work and moved to Germany, a friend entrusted her desk orchid to me. It is purple-speckled, lovely, and the sister to my...

Once, for a job, I had to tell a transgender person that the policy of the place where I worked was to live by their birth gender.  I said t...